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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements SCO sues IBM Post 41798 by Perderabo on Tuesday 14th of October 2003 08:47:16 PM

10-14-2003

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Originally posted by Perderabo
OK, now I'm confused.

I thought that X/Open owned UNIX and that was the basis of their action against this site for using unix.com.

Now I read (in the above link) that SCO says they own UNIX.

Does anyone know who actually owns UNIX?

The Open Group has published their answer to my question on one of their web sites. I have to say that I finally understand the difference between what The Open Group claims to own and what SCO claims to own.

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FALSE(P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual							  FALSE(P)

NAME

       false - return false value

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       The false utility shall return with a non-zero exit code.

OPTIONS

       None.

OPERANDS

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STDIN

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INPUT FILES

       None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       None.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

       Default.

STDOUT

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STDERR

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OUTPUT FILES

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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

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EXIT STATUS

       The false utility shall always exit with a value other than zero.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

       Default.

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APPLICATION USAGE

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EXAMPLES

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RATIONALE

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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SEE ALSO

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       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
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